Grow
up in Umeå with his parents Solveig and Torsten and his ten year elder
sister Kristina. At the age of thirteen he seriously started his music
studies and considered the churchorgan as his instrument. His interest in
composing started with his relative ability to improvise.

When
started writing music in 1975 he eventually got more commisions. During
the eighties after being invited as a guest composer at Mickery
Theatre in Amsterdam and The Royal Drama Theatre in Stockholm
he gradually considered himself more as a composer than a musician. In
2001 he became a member of the Swedish Composers Society
(FST).

Until this day he has composed music for some 40 productions
for theatre, radio and TV. Since 1993 he has gradually left TV and theatre
productions and has worked almost exclusively with comissioned works.
Among Björns compositions are works for ballets, operas,
chamber orchestras, oratories, choirs and works for
larger orchestras.

Björns inexhaustible love for acoustical
instruments and "living" musicians has resulted in his straying further
and further from the electronic influences in his
composing.

"...strange...it seems as I am back at square
one..., I must return uncompromisingly to the roots of the acoustical
instruments to once again try and experience specifically every instrument
I compose for."